During an interview with Howard Stern on his radio show, Paltrow revealed exactly how Pitt intervened, saying that he once threatened to kill the producer.

The actress said that at the age of twenty two, she found herself alone in a hotel room with the film exec when he attempted to massage her and invited her to his bedroom. She left immediately, but told Pitt, her boyfriend at the time, about the horrifying encounter. He later confronted Weinstein, who Paltrow said never made a pass at her again.

She and Pitt were at the opening of a “Hamlet” production on Broadway, “and Harvey was there, and Brad Pitt, it was like the equivalent of throwing [Weinstein] against the wall, you know, energetically,” Paltrow said. “It was so fantastic because what he did was, he leveraged his fame and power to protect me, at a time when I didn’t have fame or power yet. It was, it was fantastic. He’s a good person and Harvey was never inappropriate with me again.”

Pitt told the producer that if he ever made Paltrow “feel uncomfortable again, I’ll kill you,” she added.